Inauguration Watch [Live Thread]

[kinsman redeemer]

I feel compelled to smell the sour milk. I must do it.

Might as well have a place to vent.

[MinuteGal]

As I charter Colonel-ette in the FR Light Verse Brigade I recommend the Inaugural Poem be confined to quarters....forever.

Leni

[McGruff]

the Dow has little to do with President Obama.

Baloney!

[frankiep]

That just about perfectly sums up this display today.

[Clinging Bitterly]

This thing, Peloosi is that who that was, just did made no sense. Was there supposed to be a point?

[PghBaldy]

He WAS about 22 minutes late leaving for church.

[maica]

It’s either a campaign speech or a State of the Union speech. It certainly isn’t an inaugural address. The crowd seems a bit puzzled.

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But Peggy Noonan, who could not find a good word to say about Bush’s Inaugural Address, will be totally enthusiastic about this sound-signifying-nothing speech, as will all of the other ‘commentators’ who are waiting breathlessly for their next invitation to spend time with the One.

[WI Conservative 4 Bush]

Ms. Alexander is a professor at Yale?? Yikes, that poem was.......pedantic.

[vox_freedom]

The million+ crowd didn’t even give so much as a “courtesy clap” for that poet.

[racing fan]

so far:

screwed up oath
terrible poem

[keepitreal]

Benediction: “God of our weary years and our silent tears”. And the depression continues.

[dascallie]

Roberts is freaked out that he is swearing in a fraud in front of the world...it came out in his stumble..amazing.

[King of Card Games]

[hugorand]

This is priceless watching the crowd leave in droves during the poem and the benediction.

[CaptRon]

Good. That was simply awful.

[Deo volente]

From Robert Frost to this crap?
How far we’ve declined in just a few decades!

[jilliane]

how about some socks? :-)

[capydick]

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off.....

Did he write that part while watching a late night movie with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers?

Knute Rockne.

[L.N. Smithee]

poem... say what? huh? If you speek with a ...halting... voice... its ...a... poem

Mark my words -- in lieu of lampooning Obama -- which the comedy luminaries can't bring themselves to do yet -- SNL will go after that ridiculous poem.

[angelcindy]

150 million for this????

[GOPsterinMA]

...and a carton of ‘Kools’...